Re: REvisiting "Tool for investigating dependency chains?"

2022-05-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/29/2022 09:31 PM, David wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 01:28, Richard Owlett wrote: berenger.mo...@neutralite.org responded with a discussion about using aptitude's visual mode. That has multiple problems: 1. My original goal description was inadequate. 2. My target environment

Re: REvisiting "Tool for investigating dependency chains?"

2022-05-29 Thread David
On Mon, 30 May 2022 at 01:28, Richard Owlett wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org responded with a discussion about using > aptitude's visual mode. > > That has multiple problems: >1. My original goal description was inadequate. >2. My target environment has changed. >3. From his

REvisiting "Tool for investigating dependency chains?"

2022-05-29 Thread Richard Owlett
In my original post [1] I said: I'm in the process of doing some idiosyncratic minimalistic installs using the "--no-install-recommends" option of apt-get. What I would like to do is enter the package name. The tool's response would be a list of the recommended packages and their associated